With aching thighs and pleasant numbness resonating throughout her body, Gabriella awoke to a bed made cold by the absence of her lover. Immediately, she lurched forward, pulling the sheets to her otherwise nude torso, and began to search the room for any sight of the man she allowed to possess her the night before. But after looking throughout the hotel suite, she found only the sight of where they had been together and a lack of any items belonging to him exclusively-it was as if he was a ghost in the night coming to offer her one final moment of satisfaction before disappearing like smoke on the wind.
Clenching her jaw at the thought of having been abandoned, Gabriella began to dress for the day once again, her only clothes having been that of her bra and a bathrobe offered by the hot
